Quotable: Family Life

                                                                                                                                                                             Vol. VI, No. 4, May 1993

"In part, the nation has let this sad deterioration of family life occur for well-meant reasons. We wanted to avoid the nasty stigmatizing of unwed mothers and their children, so we made it politically correct to pretend that all families are equally effective, all lifestyle choices equally benign. Now that we know this is generally not true, we find it elitist, moralistic, racist, and cruel to say so." columnist Joan Beck in the Chicago Tribune.